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Plant: Cracklin Golden Yellow Garden Mum
Garden Mum · Chrysanthemum × morifolium
Was $8.00
Size: 1 gal
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More about this plant
Cracklin Golden Yellow opens a fiery yellow with red highlights and fades to golden yellow, shows little to no heat delay and keeps very well. Plants grow about 14 to 24 inches tall and 20 to 36 inches wide. Plant in full sun and well-drained soil, with some afternoon shade in warmer locations; too much shade makes plants sprawl. Garden mums flower in autumn and overwinter outdoors easily in the South.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 3 ft tall and 3 ft wide
- Blooms in fall
- Hardy in USDA zones 5-9
Plant description
Cracklin Golden Yellow opens a fiery yellow with red highlights and fades to golden yellow, shows little to no heat delay and keeps very well. Plants grow about 14 to 24 inches tall and 20 to 36 inches wide. Plant in full sun and well-drained soil, with some afternoon shade in warmer locations; too much shade makes plants sprawl. Garden mums flower in autumn and overwinter outdoors easily in the South.
- Flowers
- Flowers open fiery yellow with red highlights and fade to golden yellow.
- Foliage
- The leaves are alternate, lanceolate to ovate, 3 to 6 inches long and 1 to 3 inches wide, with entire, lobed or serrate margins.
- Bark & stems
- The stems are green and erect, forming mounds.
- Pruning
- Pinch spring-planted mums by removing the top half inch to an inch of new growth about every four weeks once plants are 6 inches tall, stopping in early July to early August.
- Native range
- Asia
